Hi. I am using fedora 11. Last weekend I performed a major update - 133 packages. Now I have a problem that renders the computer usable only remotely. Something is wrong with consoles, X, or the kernel. Not sure how to determine the culprit. Here are the symptoms: Say I start with a fresh telinit 5. 1) If I get into an X session, CTRL-ALT-F2 (say) does NOT take me to a vt. 2) If in KDM, CTRL-ALT-F2 does take me to a console, but if I then try to go back via ALT-F1, I get blank screen and no response to keyboard from this point on. 3) I think if left alone in runlevel 3, the keyboard/screen eventually locks up too, but not too sure about this. 4) To get it working again, must do telinit 3 then telinit 5 from a remote login. 5) In system log I get: /sbin/mingetty[16865]: tty1: invalid character 0xbb in login name init: tty1 main process (16865) terminated with status 1 init: tty1 main process ended, respawning This happens many many times, every 5 sec or so, with different "invalid characters" 6) ps ax lists several (about 10) kerneloops processes that don't seem to go away. 18600 ? S 0:08 /usr/sbin/kerneloops --nodaemon 19155 ? S 0:07 /usr/sbin/kerneloops --nodaemon 20063 ? S 0:07 /usr/sbin/kerneloops --nodaemon How do I go about finding the problem and how can I revert to a working system? Thanks! Ian -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines